31.   The nasal swab showed he had been exposed to the disease but was not ill from it.

32.   The nasal swab tests came back negative for the presence of anthrax, but the workers got antibiotics as a precaution.

33.   The much-discussed nasal swabs do this, in some cases.

34.   The tests, which were done at a county health annex in Delray Beach, consisted of a nasal swab and a health questionnaire.

35.   The wait for a nasal swab was more than two hours as fear and rumors raced across Capitol Hill.

36.   To test for exposure, though, broad swaths of employees stood in line for nasal swabs.

37.   We stepped into an empty waiting room, and she administered the nasal swab.

38.   A nasal swab added another piece of circumstantial evidence.

39.   All had nasal swabs taken that tested negative for the deadly, inhaled version of anthrax.

40.   CDC officials said nasal swabs would be taken, and antibiotics provided to combat the disease.